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The Homiletical Beat: Why All Sermons Are Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

Promoting the idea of sermon as narrative, Eugene Lowry's first book, The Homiletical Plot, became one of the most influential preaching books of the latter part of the 20th century. While the sermon as narrative has become conventional preaching wisdom, it is largely misunderstood. Sermons are, by definition, narratives and as such, they have plots. At the same time, the sermon is not a...

Craddock once said that, as preachers, “the goal is not to get something said but to get something heard.”26 I am fascinated by the recent work of Jeremy Begbie, formerly of Cambridge and now at Duke—a man of numerous talents. He is a concert pianist, oboist, and conductor. He also is a theologian and has recently written the volume Theology, Music and Time. He says that music involves the twin elements of tension and resolution. And it happens in multiple forms. These he explains by means of a graphic